Two Sunsets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHIJ FJJF KLLK MCCM NOON PQQC RSSR JJJJ TUUT JJJJ VJJV RJJR

In the fair morning of his lifeA
When his pure heart lay in his breastB
Panting with all that wild unrestB
To plunge into the great world's strifeA
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That fills young hearts with mad desireC
He saw a sunset Red and goldD
The burning billows surged and rolledD
And upward tossed their caps of fireC
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He looked And as he looked the sightE
Sent from his soul through breast and brainF
Such intense joy it hurt like painF
His heart seemed bursting with delightE
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So near the Unknown seemed so closeG
He might have grasped it with his handsH
He felt his inmost soul expandI
As sunlight will expand a roseJ
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One day he heard a singing strainF
A human voice in bird like trillsJ
He paused and little rapture rillsJ
Went trickling downward through each veinF
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And in his heart the whole day longK
As in a temple veiled and dimL
He kept and bore about with himL
The beauty of that singer's songK
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And then But why relate what thenM
His smouldering heart flamed into fireC
He had his one supreme desireC
And plunged into the world of menM
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For years queen Folly held her swayN
With pleasures of the grosser kindO
She fed his flesh and drugged his mindO
Till shamed he sated turned awayN
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He sought his boyhood's homeP
That hour Triumphant should have been in soothQ
Since he went forth an unknown youthQ
And came back crowned with wealth and powerC
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The clouds made day a gorgeous bedR
He saw the splendour of the skyS
With unmoved heart and stolid eyeS
He only knew the West was redR
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Then suddenly a fresh young voiceJ
Rose bird like from some hidden placeJ
He did not even turn his faceJ
It struck him simply as a noiseJ
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He trod the old paths up and downT
Their rich hued leaves by Fall winds whirledU
How dull they were how dull the worldU
Dull even in the pulsing townT
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O worst of punishments that bringsJ
A blunting of all finer senseJ
A loss of feelings keen intenseJ
And dulls us to the higher thingsJ
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O penalty most dire most sureV
Swift following after gross delightsJ
That we no more see beauteous sightsJ
Or hear as hear the good and pureV
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O shape more hideous and more dreadR
Than Vengeance takes in creed taught mindsJ
This certain doom that blunts and blindsJ
And strikes the holiest feelings deadR

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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